Britains weirdest phobias

[pringlejon]

I once saw a documentary on a man that had a phobia of baked beans. What a complete head case he was it was hilarious. They went through step by step therapy with him. Starting with just holding a can of Heinz beans (he was especially scared of this well known brand). Then they managed to get him to the tough stage of actually pouring them from the tin into a bowl - my favourite line of the documentary was "Oh god, some of the bean juice has just dripped on to the floor, I'm going to be sick". Great TV.

sounds amazing.

last nights highlight was the woman who was scared of kneecaps. the therapist eventually got her to touch his (was edging on cheap porn if i'm honest), and then she managed to see the word kneecap, which she hadnt been able to say in 25 years. harsh to laugh at someone who was so scared, but i did get over it fairly quickly.

guy on trisha had a phobia of scotch eggs before. the world is full of nutcases.

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

Fear of long words.

This is surely the greatest example in the world of the sheer cruelty of medical types - the proper term to describe a phobia of long words is:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

The cruel barstewards...